Sunday, 22 August 2021 (YJC)_ Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said that the home-made anti-coronavirus vaccine is ready to enter the second stage of human trial.
During his remarks on the sidelines of the inauguration of a 64-bed hospital for coronavirus patients in Kerman in Southeastern Iran, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said that the home-made anti-coronavirus vaccine is ready to enter the second stage of clinical trial.
“Noora vaccine is passing the necessary phases and will reach final stage in next few months,” he said while noting that “Our domestic vaccine, Noora, was successful in its first phase of clinical trial; now effective steps have been taken for entering the second phase of clinical trial.”
Elsewhere in his remarks he emphasized the fact that “IRGC continues to vaccinate people against coronavirus in cooperation with the health ministry.”
During a ceremony in June in the presence of General Salami, Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki and other Iranian health officials the recombinant Noora vaccine, produced by Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, was put on display.
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Tehran works under the supervision of the IRGC. Noora vaccine reached the stage of the clinical trial after 16 months of research work by Iranian scientists.